Everything had been old for too long, lazy and rusty and now, it wanted, at a single jolt, to become modern, ultramodern, supertechnical.

There were good reasons for humanism and the Renaissance to take their origins from fourteenth-century Italy.

But ſee the Sunne in ruſſet mantle clad, / Walkes ore the deaw of yon hie mountaine top, […] In the First Folio (1623), the passage reads: But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill.

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes[…], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290: